On Friday 04 June 2010 02:00:34 pm Michael Everson wrote: > A wide variety of numeric systems ***IS*** supported in the UCS. You can do > sums in Sumerian and Egyptian and Linear B and Phoenician and lots of > other numeric systems.
Sumerian is basically bar counting, and the others are all base 10. Hardly a wide variety, just different symbols meaning the same thing. None of which provide 16 digits needed for a hexadecimal numbering system.
